The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in ...

Maris Kreizman is a 40-something book critic, columnist for Lit Hub and one-time podcaster. In her debut essay collection “I Want to Burn This Place Down,” she looks back on her life to explain how ...

The new Modern Library edition of The Great Gatsby features a ’20s car emerging from the darkness, its headlights peering out of the cover like the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. On Penguin ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the ...

Indeed, many of the best book covers rival the best print ads when it comes to design ingenuity. We may only be a couple of months into 2025, but we've already seen some stunning book covers.

Back Bay Books. The patient zero of flat women might be Bernadette, the heroine and cover star of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple, from 2012. On that cover, a woman’s face floats ...

The book cover art that introduced readers across the world to Harry Potter is expected to break auction records next month.. This past week, Sotheby's announced the auction scheduled for June 26 ...

They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but as a man intrigued by the concept of judgement, the French philosopher Albert Camus would allow us to make an exception. Happily the covers for ...

What the “Spare” cover says about what is (and is not) in the book. By Vanessa Friedman He stares out, his blue eyes unflinching beneath scruffy red brows. His head, with its matching rough ...

The website Book Riot said the cover art for a 1976 paperback edition of “A Wrinkle in Time” was “nightmare fuel.” By Amanda Holpuch. Sept. 6, 2023.

CNN’s Jake Tapper is the co-author of a new book detailing the lengths to which the Biden administration and its allies engaged in a “cover-up” of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline — even ...

Jenny Grigg is the talented book designer behind The Luminaries and Gerald Murnane’s last book. We asked her to explain how covers communicate – and how they can fall short.